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More than 1 per cent of Iceland's working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.
Joint analysis by think tanks in Iceland and the UK found that the trials, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and involved more than 2,500 people, boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes.
"Progressive change is possible"
Icelandic trade union federations, which collectively negotiate wages and conditions for most Icelandic employees, have already begun to negotiate reduced working hours as a result.
The researchers estimate that as a result of new agreements struck in 2019-2021 after the trials ended, 86 per cent of Iceland's entire working population now either have reduced hours or flexibility within their contracts to reduce hours.
Critics, including many left-wing and Arab lawmakers, say it's a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israel's Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security purposes and to preserve Israel's Jewish character.
The law creates an array of difficulties for Palestinian families that span the war-drawn and largely invisible frontiers separating Israel from east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, territories it seized in the 1967 war that the Palestinians want for a future state.
"You want your security, it's no problem, you can check each case by itself," said Taiseer Khatib. His wife of more than 15 years, from the West Bank city of Jenin, must regularly apply for permits to live with him and their three children in Israel.
"There's no need for this collective punishment just because you are Palestinian," he said.
Israel's dominant right-wing parties strongly support the law, and it has been renewed every year since being enacted. But Israel's new government includes opponents of the measure, and the right-wing opposition led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — aiming to embarrass the government — has warned it won't provide the votes needed to renew the law.

Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Speaking to TV channel Russia 24, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, explained that his parishioners regularly repent to him for not being vaccinated. They feel guilty because they passed the virus on to someone else who eventually died, he claimed.
While yes, the original Independence Day may not have freed black slaves back in 1776, the United States of America in 2021 is a country where Americans, regardless of color, are free to live their lives as they choose.
Black Americans, like Bush, are free to serve in the government. Former President Barrack Obama served as the commander-in-chief for eight years. 57 of the 435 House Representatives are black.
Her comment fails to take into consideration that if black people in America truly were not free, why would black people around the world immigrate to the Untied States? According to the Migration Policy Institute, 10 percent of those who immigrated to the US in 2019 were black.
A petition to stop transgender athletes from competing with biological women at the Olympic Games has garnered more than 21,000 signatures.
New Zealander Laurel Hubbard's qualification for the women's weightlifting competition at this summer's Tokyo Games has brought scrutiny on the International Olympic Committee's rules.
Hubbard transitioned eight years ago at the age of 35. She has since met all of the requirements of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) regulations for trans athletes and fair competition.
We've been reporting for months on the hundreds of thousands of ballots missing chain of custody documentation in Georgia. In April we reported on the problems with the chain of custody for 355,000 ballots
Joe Biden "won" in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.
Comment: The Gateway Pundit also provides an update on the Arizona audit:
On Thursday, The Arizona Audit evacuated the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Katie Hobbs's pink shirt observers were nowhere to be seen.
But that didn't stop Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from again just making up total nonsense about the audit.
Katie Hobbs tweeted:"In what looked like a mad dash to clear out of the Coliseum today, observers reported that Cyber Ninjas have resorted to weighing stacks of ballots to fill out the official manifest of what is being returned to the county. Raising the question- do they even have an actual count?"Who reported this? TGP's Jordan Conradson was the only reporter in the building today and he didn't report this because it's not true.
Senate President Karen Fann set the record straight and taught Hobbs how audits work.
Hobbs has been frantically losing it over this audit since the very beginning because she knows what is coming.
Recently she convinced the County to scrap the corrupted machines that were used in 2020 but now she's pushing lies about the ballot total because she knows it will not add up.
Hobbs certified the 2020 election for Arizona. She had a responsibility to report accurate and fraud-free results. She must be scared to see what the real results are in Maricopa County.

Pupils wearing facemasks as a precaution against the transmission of the novel coronavirus arrive to attend Moor End Academy in Huddersfield, northern England on September 11, 2020
Something has gone seriously wrong when the National Education Union (NEU), the largest teachers' union in England, decides that its mission is to indoctrinate school children rather than educate them.
A document produced by the 450,000-member NEU declares that there is an "urgent" need to "decolonise" every subject and every stage of the curriculum. The urgency of taking these dramatic measures is justified in light of the recent Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic.
Comment: The push is not exclusive to Britain, but appears to be a coordinated attack on those societies still holding to western Enlightenment values.
- Math is racist! Requiring a correct answer is oppressive!
- Idiotic math professor claims meritocracy in the classroom is a 'tool of whiteness'
- Nutty professor doesn't want students to believe that hard work brings results 'because it's racist and perpetuates whiteness'
- Harvard professor actually believes merit-based admissions 'reproduce inequality'
- Steven Pinker on identity politics: 'An enemy of reason and Enlightenment values'
- The demise of Western Civilization: "Gender fluidity" as a harbinger for Postmodernist Hell
- Russia: The last keeper of European culture, Christian values and truly European civilisation
- The Truth Perspective: Radical political correctness, liberal ideologies and the decline of modern civilization

According to Israeli media, this is a photo of an Israeli cargo ship similar to the one that was attacked in the Indian Ocean on July 3, 2021.
The Israeli vessel was on route to the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) when it was attacked, Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network reported on Saturday, citing reliable but unnamed sources.
They further told al-Mayadeen that the commercial vessel "was anchored in the [Saudi] port of Jeddah before moving toward the coasts of the UAE", stressing that "no one has yet claimed responsibility for this attack so far."
Comment: See also:
- IDF reportedly wants probe into leak of alleged Israeli attack on Iranian cargo ship
- Bennett appears to hint at Israeli involvement in attack on Iran nuclear site
- Iranian nuclear facility targeted in attack was on list of targets Israel gave to US
- 'Unknown resistance forces' attack Iraq office of Israel's Mossad spy agency
- Iran starts enriching uranium to 60% purity in response to Israel's alleged attack of Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant
- Israel prepares for 'Capitol-style' attack on Knesset after election

L: Capitol Police stand down from their post on Jan. 6. R: A prospective FBI agent removes glass from a Capitol window.
One of them is a video taken by former U.S. Army marine and blogger Bobby Powell, who captured compromising scenes related to the event.
The Twitter user identified as @Gekko_WynV attaches a clip and summarizes what happened in a June 26 tweet.
Comment: See also:
- 'FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol': Tucker Carlson claims the January 6 insurrection was planned by the government
- Union says over 70 officers have quit Capitol Police since Jan. 6 insurrection
- Keeping the 'insurrection' alive? Anti-Trump Lincoln Project LIVE-TWEETS Capitol riot & gets accused of 'retraumatizing' people
- As the insurrection narrative crumbles, Democrats cling to it more desperately than ever
- Media are accusing Republican lawmaker Gohmert of insurrection for quoting Nancy Pelosi's words
- FBI ridiculed after 'another MAGA mama' arrested for walking into Capitol and snapping selfies
- Pelosi introduces legislation creating select committee into Capitol riot
- FBI monitoring of social media posts pre-Jan 6 raises even more questions of what it REALLY knew prior to Capitol Hill riot
- Media hushes up US court report suggesting FBI involvement in Capitol riot, as White House turns anti-terrorism efforts on US people

Mohamad Nor Abdullah, born without arms, adjusts a white flag outside the window of his rented room in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 3, 2021.
Malaysia's nationwide lockdown to curb a coronavirus surge was tightened further on Saturday, banning people in certain areas from leaving their homes except to buy food and necessities.
It lurched Mohamad Nor into desperation. He ekes out a living by selling packed nasi lemak, a popular dish of coconut milk rice with condiments, at a roadside stall every morning, but that income has vanished and government aid was insufficient.











Comment: What a mealy-mouthed cop-out by Ardern. She just told half her citizens they must bow to the transgender madness.
The Daily Mail Australia conducted its own poll, which garnered a result of 96 per cent of participants - 2,418 readers - thought it was unfair that Hubbard had taken the place of another female athlete in the competition.